#stability

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#capitalist #clearly #did #efficiency #exist

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#between #bondage #contract #family #king

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#commercial #operation #stability #want #you

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from. ↗

— James Taylor

#coming #hand #i #know #life

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life. ↗

— Artie Lange

#easiest #guy #i #i am #lack

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#balance

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #lovers-quarrels #passion #precariousness #volatility

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol." ... "There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality." ... "But they used to take morphia and cocaine." ... "Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178." ... "Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug." ... "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant." ... "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." ... "Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology." ... "Stability was practically assured. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#happiness #huxley #society #stability #immortality

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability. ↗

— Ehud Barak

#long-term #most #poses #regional #serious